Having worked in Canada lumber industry we lost 3 people per year on average. Trees falling was the least common, a tree splitting up the middle and falling both ways was one, cables under load breaking and whiplash killing people, loads of truck accidents on high mountain grades, blasting.. lots of options. Never seen anyone in bra and panties.. safety first!
The real oddity about the spiders falling from sun visors and people then panicking and crashing is the spiders involved are usually the large huntsmen spiders or wolf spiders which are big, look menacing, and are usually more scared of the people than the people are of them. While I'm sure there must have been cases of some people being bitten by them, I've never heard of such a case in my 65 years of living in Australia.
>more scared of the people than the people are of them If that were true, you think we'd hear about more spiders crashing their cars when frightened by a human
@@Idiomatick Not really, because the spiders fail the on-line theory test they can't get a driver's license, and they never get the credit approvals to buy the cars. Thus they have no chance of crashing their own cars, that's why they frequently sneak into cars to hitch rides with people.
Scientists conducted a study to determine the ability of frogs to jump after being threatened. In the first trial the frog as positioned on a line and a loud noise was sounded. The frog leapt 36 inches. They removed one limb and conducted a second trial. The frog leapt 30 inches. Upon removal of a second limb the frog leapt 24 inches. After a third limb was removed the frog only leapt 12 inches. After the frog’s final limb was removed and the noise was sounded the frog didn’t move. The conclusion the scientists deduced was that a frog without any appendages became deaf. I know this is true because I read it on Facebook.
After watching a whole bunch (that's Southern for "I can't remember how many" or "My memory isn't that sharp anymore) of these British comedy quiz shows, I have come to the conclusion that there are exactly 8 comedians in the UK.
@Aimee Potts Is Dave Chapelle British? Is Bill Burr? No? Hmm...They're funnier than any British comedian in my, and probably like 90% of the world's, opinion.
6:29 Jimmy is joking but that actually was a tactic. I believe it might have been the Thracians that did it, but some of their soldiers would strip naked and as far as the enemy was concerned, they were seeing an army of huge, barrel chested men that were completely naked running at them with long swords, it was a terrifying thing to see.
Omg, when you are driving into the sun and a huntsman the size of your palm falls down on your lap it takes some serious self control not to take your hands off the wheel. They are the ones that hide under the visor - not terribly poisonous.
@@beeveebee Huntsmans aren't all that venomous either. If you're unlucky enough to get bitten by the puppies of the spider world, some ice on the area and a nap is more than enough to recover
Huntsmen/women/persons have had an uncanny ability to suddenly show up in alarmingly close proximity to me on many occasions. One dared walk across my face while I was lying on the couch, watching TV. Thankfully, they're not aggressive or venomous...and I always let them roam the house as they see fit. Roger (the face-walker) lived in my loungeroom for a couple of years, presumably destroying all manner of roaches and other critters. They're OK if you're not an arachnophobe.
6:17 I thought it was going to be the incendiary pigs, or cutting the throats of the horses - both of which were to scare elephants. That being said, dropping atomic bombs was a pretty dangerous military stratagem.
Of course more people die at work than in a war each year. Because more people work than are involved in a war. You gotta work out the percentiles seperately and compare the two.
True but I wouldn’t be shocked if work was still ‘more deadly’ considering that wars death tolls are much much much less than what they used to be and that soldiers are usually extremely fit, young, healthy people and the general population is none of those.
@@bn1314 I think you're showing "confirmation bias" (assuming you're from an industrial first world nation). Having artillery and air strikes on call definitely keeps the casualty rates lower than the historical average. On the other hand the recipients of said artillery and air strikes... not so much. Add in the non-combatant casualties, and the inevitable rise in disease, famine, and the lack of medical care in the war theatre and you've got a society crushing disaster. Media (and the United Nations) stay well away from publicizing the true collateral damage that wars cause.
@@memesfromdeepspace1075 Earning Military Personnel K.I.A. would count for both statistics. Civilians killed from warfare who were not working at that moment would count for solely the War Deaths stats.
2.3 million work related deaths out of a pool of about 3.3 billion employed worldwide (about 700 deaths per million employed) as opposed to the 650,000 deaths as a result of an ongoing conflict out of the 2 billion people affected by such events (325 deaths per million affected) Of course, there are no definitive statistics, at least none that I found during the five minutes I used to look for the numbers I used, but it seems that the rate of work related mortality is double of the war related deaths. For the time being, that is.
lumber jacks. nobody thought about cutting a loaded small tree with a bigger one on top. release the pressure and it moves so fast that it goes through you or crusshes you.
@ 3:09. Our Australian ABC news reporter, reading the news, said. "A lady in Sydney to-day, was bit on the funnell by a finger web spider". Yes, it is a true story.
Did it actually happen is probably the first question. I've watched this show often enough now to assume Fry is just relating another urban myth. Plus they do have a history of stating 'facts' that later need to be corrected.
@@mickavoidant4780 No matter how sharp the sword is supposed to be, I strongly doubt that anyone could cut their own head off no matter what method was used. The best scenario I could imagine was that a second row of soldiers cut off the heads of those in front of them and MAYBE the enemy thought that they had done it themselves.
5:50 These British crackerjacks have probably never seen a real tree. "A tree felled in North Vancouver, British Columbia in 1902 had bark 34 cm in thickness." More than a foot thick. If that's the _bark,_ imagine the bite ...
You’re talking about people who have filmed journeys all over the world for tv and/or been on world tours and/or are rich enough to have traveled extensively- so I feel pretty certain that they have seen a real tree.
Sorry Stephen, Toads don't hump. They don't have penises. The male hugs the female and they release there respective cargo together into any pool of water.
No disrespect to the hilarious Sandy Toksvig (Loved her to bit's all the way back to the Saturday morning show "Number 73" way back in the 80's) , but QI has always Steven Fry's puppy. It doesn't quite walk the same with another hand holding the lead. :(
Alan showing his urban ignorance here. Among fellers in Sweden, one of the most common injuries, despite wearing protective gear, were head injuries. The job is so tough, you really have to dress light, like an athlete. And they used to stuff their first aid kit inside the top of their helmets, which rendered it useless...
@@trollop_7 Haha, well put. All of the above actually. Not much use in wearing a light plastic hard hat, relying on the inside straps for cushioning, if you put a hard-packed first aid kit between the layers. And not much use in a first aid kit when you're unconscious from a scull fracture. By far the most dangerous job I've ever had. But this little fact is so ironic it's almost funny.
Shurely the work is more dangerous than war thing is just based on the absolute numbers? Way more people work than fight wars. Should be a measure baaed on per actors (in the relevant act). Its like saying chopping veg is more dangerous than running headlong into a wall of spikes
3:37 Well of course employment is more dangerous than war. Currently 75% of the population go to work, 100% of the population are not involved in a war. Employment will always be more dangerous than another dangerous thing then you'll never do, no matter how dangerous that other thing might be! 🤦♀️
i havent tidy'd my room in so lomg the arachnids must be getting big its o'k my nicotine & vodka scent probly keeps them away my ceiling is fairly scary i squisshed a big arsesilker a few months back ( im not joking ! ) P.S i dont like spiders ~ luckily i can beat most spiders in combat
I think what you meant to type was "facts about the most dangerous things" in the world. Facts alone are not dangerous. Probably the person who manages this channel does not speak English as first language
@@trollop_7 it just got stale I suppose. In the latter years of Stephen's rule Alan could be seen to be tetchy at times. The sparkle had gone. I like Sandi Toksvig, but she doesn't have the same affability that Fry had. It's that same problem American series have. Tired, out of ideas, but nobody wants to leave the gravy train.
When I get decapitated for my crimes.... my many many crimes... I will ensure to haunt the nearest person I have the chance to in any way I can in my enfeebled state. It just makes sense.
@@trollop_7 Yeah when heads don't have lungs it makes more of just a rattle like a mostly empty ballon leaking the last bits. Also the joke has to be fast before all the blood and oxygen leave the brain to get the laugh started so it is all a very scheduled thing if you even want to tell jokes to decapitated people.
This is the reason why the British have better comedy it has to do with using your 🧠 BRAIN! In America we make fun of what people LOOK like how they SOUND how STUPID they are we should learn - But after all in America we make movies where the most intelligent guy is usually British and HE'S always the VILLAIN so we must be afraid of intelligence☺😛😌
What absolute nonsense to say that work is three times as dangerous as war. Three times as many people may die from something work-related, but that is because almost everyone works for most of their life. Who do you even know who was ever in a war?. There is a war going on somewhere all the time. The vast majority of people in the world aren't even there, but the people who are there are much more likely to die than the rest of us dying from work.
My answer to 3 times as DANGEROUS as WAR: "Being a young gay swedish male with a "laissez faire" attitude in NYC during the 1980's?" This was my first thought. sorry. I don't want to offend anyone. Just writing the true thought that I got in my head.
